Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Forensic science is an embattled field. As DNA testing has overturned hundreds of ...

John and Sally Sweek, a young married couple living in east Dallas, were known by friends—a lively party crowd—to sell cocaine out of their apartment. Two of those friends found their bodies there in ...

Former police officer turned crime novelist and BBC screenwriter McCrery (Tooth and Claw) delves into the bloody origins of modern forensic science, looking back at key figures and important ...

Step aside, Dirty Harry. These days, scientists are getting the bad guys and the glory. And thanks to television and two passionate Purdue teachers whose courses have captured students’ imaginations, ...

On this day, March 25, in 1878, Frances Glessner Lee, a millionaire heiress who revolutionized the study of crime scene investigation, was born. Lee, raised on Sherlock Holmes tales, founded Harvard’s ...

With the continued popularity of TV shows like CSI and CSI-Miami, interest in forensic science has reached unprecedented levels. While compelling as dramas, these shows spread many misconceptions ...

A new exhibition and “Civic Season” activities galore at the museum Amy Kehs NEW EXHIBITION “Forensic Science on Trial” 2 East, Albert H. Small Documents Gallery The History Film Forum presents the ...

Tiny plants, like moss, are easy to overlook. They're often as small as an eyelash, and they tend to grow on the ground in dark, wet places. But these small plants sometimes turn out to be big clues ...

That strands of Napoleon's hair might reveal he was murdered (rather than dying of stomach cancer, as thought at the time) remains probably the best-known case of "retrospective diagnosis" of the kind ...

When comparing bullets or cartridge cases, a forensic firearms examiner can offer an expert opinion as to whether or not they match. But they cannot express the strength of the evidence numerically, ...